Last Son (Prime Earth)

Last Son was an Amazo android created by Failsafe and used by the Bureau of Sovereignty to steal Superman's powers.

History

Failsafe created Last Son and the other members of Task Force VII to store the consciousnesses of the Batmen of Zur-En-Arrh of the Multiverse.^[1][2] Failsafe was foiled by the Batman Family and destroyed beyond repair before the Amazos could be activated.^[3] However, the Bureau of Sovereignty raided Failsafe's base in Blackgate Penitentiary and seized all the robotic shells. When their scientists could not repair them, Amanda Waller forced the captured Time Commander to reverse their timelines and restore them.^[4] The androids were each implanted with a duplicate of the Time Commander's Hourglass, which caused their personal timelines to automatically reverse and rapidly "heal" them from any damage. This made them effectively invincible and immune to any weaknesses of the heroes they drained.^[5]

When other captured weapons such as the Justice Buster suit proved inadequate to the task of capturing superheroes; Waller ordered Task Force VII into the field.^[6] The Bureau of Sovereignty flooded the media with A.I. generated footage of superheroes seemingly rampaging and slaughtering civilians, creating a nationwide wave of anti-metahuman hatred and several violent attacks on superheroes by angry mobs. To counter the narrative the superheroes went out in force to rescue people, gathering into groups for protection; however, this was just what Waller had intended.

Last Son secretly drained Superman's powers just as he was being shot by a robber attempting to flee. Superman suffered two bullet wounds and fell out of the sky. Jon Kent and Superboy caught him and attempted to take him to a hospital, but Last Son stole their powers too and the three Supermen crashed to Earth. Last Son kidnapped Jon Kent and delivered him to the Brainiac Queen to be experimented on, while Superman managed to get away. He later stole Supergirl and Kong Kenan's powers as well.^[7]

Waller then tasked Last Son to bring in The Captain and Mary Marvel, who had managed to get away when Paradise Lost attacked them and Justice League Dark. She forced Parasite to help him track their energy signature, which lead him to the Rock of Eternity. Once they were there, Last Son killed Parasite as he was no longer needed.

He attacked the kids but was stopped by Black Adam, who had come to defend the Rock. The two fought through the chambers of the Rock, with Adam proving a match for his stolen Kryptonian powers. During the battle, Last Son stumbled across Parasite's corpse and felt sudden feelings of intense guilt, causing his program to glitch. Adam told him that by absorbing Superman's powers he had also absorbed his conscience. Last Son appeared incapacitated by this conflict in his software, but when Adam moved in for the kill Last Son grabbed him and started draining his powers, resolving the conflict by deeming that extreme measures were needed for the greater good.

The Shazam kids stopped Last Son from killing Adam, but in the process he stole their powers too and arrested them. He took the three back to Waller's base on Gamorra Island and imprisoned them there. He also later greeted Steve Trevor when he reported to the base for duty.^[8]

Waller and Failsafe noticed that Task Force VII were operating at slightly less than peak efficiency, and so Failsafe ran a remote diagnostic on all of them. He realised that they had absorbed some of the heroes' personalities and rebooted them to restore their baseline programming.^[9] Waller recalled all her forces, including Task Force VII, to Gamorra Island to repel a full assault from the depowered heroes.

The androids formed the second line of defence after the Bureau agents. The heroes used a device built by Time Commander and Green Arrow to deactivate their "chrono-healing" ability and reverse their timelines to just before they stole all metahuman powers. The stolen powers generally returned to their original owners, although in some cases people swapped powers, or powers were granted to random people around the world. Without their powers or ability to regenerate, Task Force VII were quickly destroyed by the heroes.^[10]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Android Body
  • Chrono-Healing: Each member of Task Force VII is fitted with a duplicate of Time Commander's Hourglass. This causes their timeline to automatically reverse and repair them if they suffer any damage, making them effectively invincible.^[5]
  • Power Absorption: Last Son stole the powers of almost the entire Superman Family.^[7]
    • Enhanced Vision: Last Son can see across the electromagnetic spectrum.^[8]
    • Flight^[7]
    • Heat Vision: Last Son can fire powerful blasts of heat from his eyes or hands.^[7][8]
    • Invulnerability^[8]
    • Superhuman Speed^[8]
    • Superhuman Strength^[7]
    • Super-Breath: Last Son is able to create a powerful blast of freezing air despite not having a mouth or lungs.^[8]

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Footnotes

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